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FILM: MOHAWK MOTHERS TAKING MESSAGE TO SUPREME COURT OF CANADA

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MNN. Oct.17. 2024. The Mohawk Mothers and the Independent Special Interlocutor For Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools went officially to Ottawa to deliver an application  to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case against Societe Quebecoises des Infrastructure, McGill University, Royal Victoria Hospital, City of Montreal Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of Quebec.  No. 500-09-030847-248 SCM No. 500-17-120468-221. They made a public declaration on the steps of the Supreme Court of Canada at 1.00 pm on Oct. 16, 2024 which is covered in the following film: 

MOHAWK MOTHERS FILE WITH CANADA SUPREME COURT OCT/15/24

 

Official meetings are ended by the Iroquois Friendship Dance:  

Iroquois Friendship Dance - Traditional Native Dance / Song - Boston Indian Week, 1974

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PLANET PEACE

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OCT. 12, 2024. MNN. 

On turtle island some are waking up. Because the indigenous people who survived the continuing genocide are making it happen. All people are now awakened and have to fix it. Some want to continue their murderous pointless criminal style dream, especially the “reconciliationists”. Their main purpose was to move to stolen land to make money. But now they sense they are on a sinking ship. They don’t know how much time they have left. So they are hurrying the completion of their project. In reality their dream is actually our nightmare and we are making known to them how they continue to interference in our duty to take care of our mother earth. These strangers cannot stay here unless they learn to live naturally according to the kaianerekowa, the great peace. They must cooperate with creation which is difficult for them. They came here temporarily and will leave to return to their mothers to help her or go elsewhere. We have always encouraged them to clean up their garbage on onowarekeh turtle island. We can’t let them stay here until they finish destroying all of turtle island. 

Here is what is happening.

The colonists messed up their homeland and then migrated to another land, here. The told us their stay on turtle island was suppose to be temporary. They broke this promise. Before they came from their Kanatsaion’on Old Country they developed a plan to secretly annihilate the indigenous people and to make up a legend that these strange inhabitants once lived here but disappeared. Settlers were taught we were not real Indians. Their plan was to totally exterminate us all, take all the resources and then move on. In the meantime they created republics of war to put down any resistance here and elsewhere where they planned to kill off or assimilate the natural peoples and then take over the land, always thinking ahead in their journey to take over the world. The original people and creation were not told about this plan as we lived according to nature.

They came to turtle island only to try to get rich, died poor and now their children are doing the same, raping the earth trying to get rich. They are still trying to disappear us. Dekanawida warned us that “the white serpent would have us squeezed so tight we could hardly breathe”.  Throughout they have moved their people in to inhabit our lands. Then unseemly events occurred like railroads and highways to claim all our lands. Nature is going to teach them. If the settlers are smart they will come to the indigenous elders to understand about oneness with nature, unity. They must clean up their messes and live absolutely sustainable with mother earth. 

All the work was done for them by imported slaves and workers to be disposed of when necessary, work that can now be done by machines and robots. Our indigenous saw them as strange, ia-ra-ti-konkwe kiken, unhumans and as corporate fictions, way back when. Our elders taught our young women not to have children with these artificial entities. But our women were impregnated by the strangers to create a servant class. They had ads in the newspapers of Europe to come to take “free” land. The deep state corporation imposed their laws throughout by treaties of international trade and commerce.

Actually they were to be killed or die off if things did not work out. It was called “Starting Over” in the new lands of other peoples. Hitler learned from the American experience how to implement the Nazi program using the concentration camps as the reservations. Then “You’ll have room to grow”. We were placed by the military on concentration camps called “reservations”. Canada’s plan is to make us citizens and complicit in their plan to execute us as a people and to claim our land. “Reconciliation” is the definition of their corporate fiction.

European oligarchs are the beneficiaries and the shareholders. To them we are expendable. Robots to be thrown in the garbage dump. Every aspect of their “pioneering” is programmed, like pouring toxins in and near our communities to poison us. Cutting down all our trees. While all their holidays are to remind them of their old country, except for one, the indigenous thanksgiving harvest. When these people get to their new ‘land’ they always wish they were somewhere else because they do not belong here. Many wonder what they are doing here. After several generations the settlers are starting to realize the indigenous values. They call it “the great awakening”.  

We indigenous do not wish to be anywhere else but on our mother where creation placed us so we can take care of her. They have no ties to her as we do. We tell each other stories so we know we are not alone. The colonizers say they came to turtle island to start a new culture. But they had to first eliminate the ones who were already here. These people fly from one place to another but end up dying alone because they don’t belong anywhere. Their minds are robotic, without deep feelings. They are people who are not tied to the land like us. They could and can still kill us without remorse and then hide and forget about it. It was part of the plan. Being unnatural people they change their appearance and language.  

But they messed up and did not tell their people. In Canada they have been in a cocoon. Now the settlers want to become butterflies. They’ve been asleep waiting to come out as something beautiful.

We indigenous live in our close knit communities and always maintain our ties to each other. The settlers say they came here to build a new world in this open country where they had room to grow. But they had to take care of business first. Us! 

Turtle island was a business venture. The biggest on earth. The deep state filled theirs and everybody’s heads with dreams that they can get rich on stolen lands while helping to murder the natural people. They were sent to this new world of the okwehonweh natives, to onowarekeh, turtle island, which the marauders named “North America”. As a coverup all the original geographical names were killed too. Also, we were all forced to be called silly foreign names or punished. They told us they were sent here by their gurus because it was their fate. We sensed it was all planned out by big companies who made a lot of money and gained a lot of world power. We noticed these companies are all owned by the same families. They invaded our paradise instead of fixing their garbage covered unliveable lands.

They set out to annihilate all life on turtle island. Despite our faults we can survive as we love one another and our land.  We were told there will be a bright light many times brighter than the sun coming from the east, all the serpents will flee onowarekeh. There will be two suns in the sky and the peace will return. We are on the cycle of the return of the sky world and the peace.” 

John Denver and others sang and said that we must all keep all of our mother beautiful. 

He was born in the summer of his 27th yearComing home to a place he’d never been beforeHe left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born againYou might say he found a key for every door
When he first came to the mountains his life was far awayOn the road and hanging by a songBut the string’s already broken and he doesn’t really careIt keeps changing fast and it don’t last for long
But the Colorado Rocky Mountain highI’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the skyThe shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabyRocky Mountain high (Colorado)Rocky Mountain high (high in Colorado)
He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds belowHe saw everything as far as you can seeAnd they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sunAnd he lost a friend but kept the memory
Now he walks in quiet solitude the forests and the streamsSeeking grace in every step he takesHis sight has turned inside himself to try and understandThe serenity of a clear blue mountain lake
And the Colorado Rocky Mountain highI’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the skyTalk to God and listen to the casual replyRocky Mountain high (high in Colorado)Rocky Mountain high (high in Colorado)
Now his life is full of wonder but his heart still knows some fearOf a simple thing he cannot comprehendWhile they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple moreMore people, more scars upon the land
And the Colorado Rocky Mountain highI’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the skyI know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle flyRocky Mountain high
Colorado Rocky Mountain highI’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the skyFriends around the campfire and everybody’s highRocky Mountain high (high in Colorado)

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MOHAWK MOTHERS @ SUPREME COURT OF CANADA – OCT.15/24 TUE. Noon.

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NOON 12:00 – TUESDAY OCT. 15, 2024

301 WELLINGTON ST. OTTAWA 613-995-5351

Municipal parking across from court. Greetings at front of courthouse sidewalk on Wellington @ 11.00 am. 

Agenda:

The kanienkehaka kahnistensera Mohawk Mothers have travelled to present documents to the Supreme Court of Canada [Ottawa] to continue the forensic archaelologcal investigation into unmarked graves and clandestine mass burials of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls on McGill University campus, at the former Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal Quebec Canada. Please join us for an historic moment as the kaniekehaka kahnistensera Mohawk Mothers stand on the steps of the Supreme Court of Canada to enter the SCC submit documents in accordance with kanienkehaka protocols.

 

 MARCH BEHIND DRUMMERS

ON THE SCC STEPS OHENTON KARIWATEKWEN “THE WORDS THAT COME BEFORE ALL”  OPENING BY TWO KANIENKEHAKA 

TEKARONTAKE ‘Straightening the tree of peace’

 

KAHENTINETHA:’ Why we have come to your your court…’

KIMBERLY MURRAY:Independent Special Interlocateur for Missing Children & Unmarkd Graves will speak on the “Burial Sites of Indian Residential Schools”. 

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS BY SUPPORTERS. 

PRESS. CONFERENCE AND MEDIA AVAILABILITY. 

Contact: Raj Basdeo 514.249.1661 rkbasdeo@proton.me

The SCC is policed by the RCMP. They will be on the premises to ensure safety and security.

Ozzie Osbourne sings about how in their time of need they were taken in and sheltered but forgot about the kindness. Now hey want to find their way back to their mother.  

Times have changed and times are strange
Here I come but I ain’t the sameMama, I’m coming home
Times go bye, seems to beYou could have been a better friend to meMama, I’m coming home
You took me in and you drove me outYeah, you had me hypnotized, yeahLost and found and turned aroundBy the fire in your eyes
You made me cry, you told me liesBut I can’t stand to say goodbyeMama, I’m coming home
I could be right, I could be wrongIt hurts so bad it’s been so longMama, I’m coming home
Selfish love yeah we’re both aloneThe ride before the fall, yeahBut I’m gonna take this heart of stoneI just got to have it all
I’ve seen your face a hundred timesEveryday we’ve been apartAnd I don’t care about the sunshine, yeah‘Cause mama, mama, I’m coming homeI’m coming home
You took me in and you drove me outYeah, you had me hypnotizedLost and found and turned aroundBy the fire in your eyes
I’ve seen your face a thousand timesEveryday we’ve been apartAnd I don’t care about the sunshine, yeah‘Cause mama, mama, I’m coming homeI’m coming home, I’m coming homeI’m coming home

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For immediate release

Press conference and media availability: 

To protect their ancestors’ graves, the Mohawk Mothers will be taking their case to the Supreme Court for recognition of their right to an independent inquiry into the unmarked graves of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children buried clandestinely on tekanontak (“mount royal”, kanien’kehà:ka/rotiononhsión:ni land occupied by McGill University), the site of the former Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial Psychiatric Institute. Following the Court of Appeal of Québec overturning the Superior Court of Québec decision’s to this effect at the request of McGill University and the Quebec government (via the Société québécoise des infrastructures, SQI), the Kanien’kehà:ka kahnistensera and the Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray will be holding a press conference with their supporters on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at noon in front of the Supreme Court of Canada (301 Wellington Street, Ottawa to report on this major moment in which they are turning to the Supreme Court of Canada.

What: Rally, ceremonies and press conference in front of the Supreme Court of Canada in the presence of Kanien’kehà:ka kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) and Independent Special Advocate Kimberly Murray.

The Kanien’kehà:ka kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) will share information with the media on the filing of a motion before the Supreme Court of Canada to ensure that the search for anonymous graves of victims of medical experiments at Montreal’s former Royal Victoria Hospital be overseen by the panel of experts selected in collaboration with McGill and the SQI in April 2023. McGill and the SQI unilaterally disbanded the panel in the summer of 2023, leading the Superior Court of Québec to order its reinstatement in a decision that was subsequently overturned by the Court of Appeal of Quebec. In the company of Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray, and in accordance with traditional kanien’kehá:ka and rotiononhsión:ni protocols, the Mohawk Mothers will explain why they are turning to the Supreme Court in their battle to enforce their traditional responsibility to care for the land and protect the children of past, present and future generations.

After their speeches, the speakers will take questions from journalists on site.

Speakers :

  • Kanasaraken, Kanien’kehà:ka knowledge keeper
  • Kahentinetha et Kwetiio, Kanien’kehà:ka kahnistensera (Mères mohawks)
  • Kimberley Murray, Independant Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools

When: 

  • Tuesday October 15th starting at 12 noon.

Where:

  • Supreme Court of Canada, 302 Wellington, Ottawa.

For more information, please consult www.mohawkmothers.ca or contact:

Email: ds.mohawkmothers@gmail.com or kahnistensera@riseup.net

Phone:
Rajendra Kapila Basdeo: 514-249-1661

Marjolaine Arpin: 514-231-4252 

Philippe Blouin: 514-463-8835

Participation:
Please confirm your attendance by writing to ds.mohawkmothers@gmail.com or calling Marjolaine Arpin at 514-231-4252.

This is a sensitive matter; your respect and cultural sensitivity are appreciated.

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EXHUMATION DAY OF ‘D.C.SQUAT’ OCT. 25, 2024.

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MNN. Oct. 4, 2024. The 2022 Gross National Product of the colony of Canada is $2,139,840.000,000 [trillions] for 2022 which all comes from the land of the murdered Indigenous people of turtle island, most of who lie dead in secret graves in turtle island. The invaders brought nothing here from their land. The number of murders is hidden by the usurpers from Europe and their accomplices. One day national leaders will be prosecuted for war crimes by courts. They are all on our shores uninvited by us. They still have plans to extinguish the rest of our rights. Now we can see why it is the army that runs the Department of Indian Affairs and the war for our land is still ongoing as they pillage all of our natural resources to enrich a few. These criminals who believe they are masterminds must answer for the horror they have carried out and plan to continue to inflict on us. They live off the proceeds of one of the bloodiest regimes in human history. Canada, It’s over.  

No matter how much apologies they give us, it is meaningless. Their “apology program” is somehow to lessen the responsibility of their crime. Canada is a recent invention. 153 years old, a privately owned corporation by the same 13 families that we noticed were running everything on both sides of the fake border they put up on turtle island after the false flag American Revolution. Each municipality of Canada is a private corporation and the trustees are all bankers. Therefore, they own each of the citizens of each municipality outright according to their legalese system. The paupers of Europe stole our lives, possessions and land. Justice will be carried out and there will be punishment for this nightmare that has shackled us.  

The human being has the potential to be good and bad. Many need laws to be half way nice because it is not their nature. But all good and bad still benefitted from the crimes. The wrongs are so calculated, malignant and devastating that the world can no longer ignore it. Only the return of the peace will stop it. We shall have peace on earth and it’s coming soon. The kaianerekowa will punish them for committing the worst horrors ever. They destroyed us with ruthless brutality.  

The genocide is ongoing. The immigrants have in common that they came here to turtle island with the hope of getting rich on stolen Indian land. They all had ambitions to take our land and to murder us. Their military were behind them.

Today they have us all locked on these reservations. We are strong. We will survive as creation intended. 

“Our object is to continue [their disappearance] until there is not a single Indian in Canada”. Duncan Campbell Scott. [Indian Affairs]

We want D.C. Scott’s body exhumed and returned to his homeland in Scotland where he belongs.

Paul Revere & the Raiders reminds us of the recent past raid of our men, women, children and our mother earth: “they took the whole cherokee nation, locked us on this reservation. Took away our way of life . . .”

 

 

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GREAT PEACE IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALEST’INDIANS

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These words were shared by participants of the 50th Anniversary of the Geniengeh Land Back Celebration that happened last weekend.

MNN. May. 13, 2024. The attempt by McGill University, which is on indigenous land, to move the Palestinian student encampment from McGill through colonial court action cannot happen as they come under the protecto o0g the tree of peace. Should Canadian colonial authorities try to invade them, they will be trespassing on Mohawk land. They pretend to have a legal and moral right to be here. But they do not. According to the great peace, which encircles turtle island, any who follow the great white roots of peace to their source are welcome to sit under the shade of the tree of peace with us. The kahnistensera/council of women is the basis of peace on earth. All life on earth has a right to seek survival and refuge under the great peace, which supercedes any foreign laws brought to turtle island. If their minds are clean and follow the kaianerekowa, they are welcome. Kasastensera kowa sa oiera is the great natural power of creation which gives them the right to seek refuge under the great tree of peace. It is all about kanonkwatsera, which is about love, the most powerful medicine on earth. Every child knows to love a stranger like a friend. Love a friend like family.  All those protecting their people and all life are following the great law of peace. The fire in our minds to survive and be free comes from creation which applies to all life.  
 
Part 1
Kanien'keha:ka at McGill Encampment for Palestine (Part 1)

Part 2

Kanien'keha:ka at McGill Encampment for Palestine (Part 2)

Part 3

Kanien'keha:ka at McGill Encampment for Palestine (Part 3)

Robbie Robertson tells the story: t

The general rode for sixteen daysThe horses were thirsty and tiredOn the trail of a renegade chiefOne he’d come to admireThe soldiers hid behind the hillsThat surrounded the villageAnd he rode down to warn the chiefThey’d come to conquer and pillage
Lay down your armsLay down your spearThe chief’s eyes were sadBut showed no sign of fear
It is a good day to die (It is a good day to die)Oh my children dry your eyesIt is a good day to die
And he spoke of the days before the white man cameWith his guns and whiskyHe told of a time long agoBefore what you call historyThe general couldn’t believe his wordsNor the look on his faceBut he knew these people would rather dieThen have to live in this disgrace
What law have I brokenWhat wrong have I doneThat makes you want to bury meUpon this trail of blood
It is a good day to die (It is a good day to die)Oh my children don’t you cryIt is a good day to die
We cared for the land and the land cared for usAnd that’s the way it’s always beenNever asked for more never asked too muchAnd now you tell me this is the end
I laid down my weaponI laid down my bowNow you want to drive me outWith no place left to go
It is a good day to die (It is a good day to die)Oh my children don’t you cryIt is a good day to die (It is a good day to die)
And he turned to his people and said dry your eyesWe’ve been blessed and we are thankfulRaise your voices to the skyIt is a good day to die
Oh my children don’t you cry (don’t you cry)Dry your eyesRaise your voice up to the skyIt is a good day to die
ROBBIE ROBERTSON - It is a good day to die

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GREAT MEETING, GRAND ENTRANCE @ MCGILL ENCAMPMENT

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PREVIEW OF FORTHCOMING GREAT PEACE MEETING 

WATCH FORTHCOMING VIDEO OF THE FIRST GREAT MEETING BETWEEN MOHAWKS AND MONTREAL  STUDENTS.  WE ALL HAVE THE SAME ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS FROM CREATION: TO CARRY OUT THE GREAT PEACE!

MNN. MAY 3, 2024.

May 5, 2024

thahoketoteh reminds the world that the original instructions of creation are for all the people of the world, our house is for all living earthlings our Mother Earth and the kanonronkwatsera/pure love that she exudes, the best medicine on the planet. and all its natural ways. Hear the “House of Healing”:

How many more times do you need to fall down, pick yourself up, shake it off, and put your feet back on the ground. Hear the wind blow, feel the breeze in your face. Come to our house of healing and awake. There’s so much trouble on our Mother Earth. She gives us everything we need with. so little in return. And with the rains, there comes a cleansing. Come to our house of healing. Everything. is in this place… We are all one with our creator. Ooh heal me. Ooh heal me …

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MOHAWK KNOWLEDGE KEEPER PROVIDES GUIDANCE TO “PALESTINIAN ENCAMPMENT” @ MCGILL

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TODAY, MAY 3, 2024, AT 3.00, KANIENKEKAH WORDS WILL BE. PROVIDED BY TEKARONTAKE, A KEEPER OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, AT THE MCGILL ENCAMPMENT ON MOHAWK LAND FOR ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

 

MNN May 3, 2024.The kahnistensera Mohawk Mothers wholly support the encampment that the McGill students and professors set up to demand that McGill divests from the ongoing genocide of indigenous Palestinian people in Gaza. 

In 2015 Palestinian students at McGill came to see us to share their concerns that McGill is conducting military research in its “war labs” that were used against Paleistinians. As a result one of the Mohawk Mothers issued a notice of seizure of McGill Universsity on September 12, 2012, which sits on Mohawk Kanienkehaka land. Since then the Mohawk have experienced McGill’s ongoing colonial enterprise both against the Palestinians and Kanienkehaka. 

McGill is now using its students tuition money to appeal a judgment the Mohawk Mothers obtained at the Montreal Superior Court to make them respect a settlement agreement signed with the Mohawk Mothers to allow expert archaeologists to search for the potential unmarked graves of the Mohawk and other relatives used as guinea pigs in medical experiments at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

“Why does McGill continue to invest its money to fight us and other indigenous people throughout the world? McGill has to divest all the money it is devoting to fight against the indigenous rights, dignity and lives here on Turtle Island and in the Middle East. We stand with the encampment and the students are here on our unceded territory with our permission. 

The Superior Court of Montreal also agree they are doing nothing illegal. We Mohawks kanienkehaka have our own legal system since time immemorial, the Great Peace, which promotes non-violent peaceful and egalitarian resolution between all peoples regaredless of their race and color. 

McGill would be better to abide by our way which is on our territory, to avoid sowing more conflict and violence as it is now doing.  

niawen”

As the the students resist and persist to end the wars,  Karonhiatajegeh’s Unity flag flies in the middle of it and we can hear whispers of the students saying “God Bless Louis Hall”, as we know that Karohiatajegeh hears it in the spirit world and smiles upon us. “You are you. I am me. He is he. She is she. When we put our minds together, we are  the people, all children of mother earth. We are one . Celebrate. The power of one mind, participate. The power is the people. Not the money or the war. Let’s raise our voices so they hear us. Let them roar. No more killing of our own family. Let’s give peace a berth. ‘Cause we’re all in this together. We the people of Mother Earth”.

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NO REDEMPTION” FOLLOW UP

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ILLEGAL INCEPTION

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MNN. April 1, 2024. Time to review the 2016 coverage of how McGill University and its appendages came into existence on kanienkehaka land and using rotinoshonni trust funds.  

Usurpation of Kanionkehaka Land and Funds to Build McGill University; 

 Our Resources are not for War:

Military Research at McGill University;

Mining Companies Covet Mohawk Niobium for US/NATO War Machine; 

Support the Kanonkehaka Demand for Justice and Peace at McGill University by the Mohawk Women Titleholders.

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The power lies within the people. When the people put their minds together, there comes great power. Let’s keep a good mind and stay on the path: “I speak to you now proud and brave. Remembering the lessons our ancestors gave about acknowledgement and respect and the four races as they intersect. From the path behind us, the one that lies ahead, let us walk softly on the road we tread. But hold our heads high as we move along thinking with one mind as we sing our song. We are glad to say and we say loud and clear through all of this sadness, we are still here. Power to the people. Missionize, Christianize, socialize, minimize, legislate, assimilate, economize, genocide”. [thahoketoteh of kantehke, Project for Peace. thahoketoteh@ntx.com]

AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC. WASTE TO BE DUMPED INTO ST. LAWRENCE RI.

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MNN. THE FOLLOWING REPORT WAS READ ON KRK1:30 RADIO KAHNAWAKE @ 12:35 PM MON. FEB. 5/24. 

“Feb 5, 2024: as read on K103 Radio, Kahnawake at 12:35

Time Sensitive: Let’s talk about Air Products & Chemicals Inc. 

Nine years ago, I began working in Akwesasne as a family physician. One of the strong currents underlying the health of Akwesasro:non is that the environment is heavily polluted and that many of the people are sick. The high levels of PCBs, lead, mercury, benzene, fluoride, dioxins, arsenic, and cyanide have been documented in many research studies in Akwesasne and are felt to be responsible for the elevated levels of cancers, diabetes, mental health illnesses like dementia and depression, developmental disorders in children, and endocrine and autoimmune disease.

The corporations responsible for this air, water, and soil pollution have done extensive remediation to decrease these chemicals in the environment. But it is never enough. People are still asked to eat only a small amount of fish, garden in soil that is brought from elsewhere, not pick medicines in certain areas, and of course not to drink untreated water from the Kaniatarawenen:en, or the St. Lawrence River. We have a responsibility to be on constant vigilance, stewarding the lands against further damage, so that our ‘Coming Faces’ will be able to live in a healthy environment.

In July 2022, the United Nations officially recognized that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. Both Canada and the United States have also recognized this right. At the same time, to mitigate Climate change, both countries are looking for energy solutions that do not emit carbon into the atmosphere. One company, Air Products and Chemicals Inc., aims to make hydrogen fuel in a facility that will be built in Massena, NY, adjacent and upriver from Akwesasne. I have read all the available documentation.

Specifically, Air Products & Chemicals Inc., will take water from the St. Lawrence River, clean this water using treatment chemicals called ‘biocide’, and then subject it to an electric current, called ‘electrolysis’, and break the water molecules into its component parts of hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen will be released into the atmosphere, and the hydrogen will be dried, liquified, stored in tankers, and then driven by trucks 500 miles away to be used in the travel industry as clean fuel. It is considered clean because the energy used to make the hydrogen is hydroelectric. The effluent, or waste from the plant, will consist mostly of water, and at 90-degree F will be disposed of into the nearby Grasse River via the Massena Canal. Right now, Air Products & Chemicals Inc., are applying for aState Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) Permit to discharge this waste into the river.

There are concerns about many aspects of this project: there are wetlands to be disturbed, trees to be clear cut, and the homes of endangered species like the Northern Long Eared bat and the Monarch butterfly may be affected. Would 90 degrees F water cause thermal pollution to the Grasse River? Would the armoured and sediment cap that has been placed over the riverbed of the Grasse River, sequestering the previous pollution, be affected, and breached? Is it safe to drive hydrogen fuel through our community? Are there truly no archeological sites in the area? The documents that I have read are very detailed, and using science and regulations, Air Products & Chemicals Inc. have done their due diligence and answered most of these questions.

However, we should have a persistent concern. Air Products & Chemicals Inc plans to send its effluent into the Massena Canal. The Massena Canal was built in 1893, flows into the Grasse River, previously provided hydroelectricity to the Alcoa plant, and is no longer in use. The Massena Canal was NOT part of Alcoa’s remediation plan. Will this effluent from the Air Products & Chemicals Inc. discharged into the Massena Canal disrupt the sediment on the canal’s bottom? What is the depth and the flow rate of the canal waters? What does its sediment contain? Does this sediment contain high levels of PCBs that will then be carried to the Grasse River, over the riverbed armoured cap, right to the waters of Akwesasne?

The Air Products report says, “No significant socioeconomic impacts are expected, and the proposed project is not anticipated to result in disproportionately high or adverse impacts to low income and/or minority populations. Subsequently, no mitigation measures are proposed”. The proposed site is also described as ‘previously undeveloped with no history of industrial activity’. These statements are not true. We are downwind and downstream of three Superfund sites in the adjacent areas of this proposed project. There are many research studies that have shown the deleterious effects of contaminants from these Superfund sites on the health of the people of Akwesasne. Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up their hazardous non-usable material. The Grasse River remediation project was only completed in 2021, but the area has never been remediated to its natural state.

Akwesasne was not listed as a special interest group. Akwesasne was not officially invited to any information and consultation sessions. Notices were only posted in the Watertown and Massena newspapers. Akwesasne community members who attended the July 12, 2023, meeting were reassured that Air Products & Chemicals Inc. would hold an information session in Akwesasne later. Despite many attempts to contact Air Products & Chemicals Inc., this meeting never happened, and the information was eventually obtained through a freedom of information application to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

Given that we are downstream, adjacent to Massena, and have a very public, historic, ongoing, adverse, distrusting relationship with the corporations responsible for the three Superfund sites, we wonder why our people were deliberately kept out of the plans for this project. We became substantively aware of this project two weeks ago. We have until February 8, 2024, to make our concerns known to the DEC who evaluate the SPDES Permit of Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

I would add at this moment that we, as stewards of our mother, as Okwehonwe — we don’t rip apart the molecules of our mother’s water. We protect the water, give thanks to the water- industrialism no matter how it’s advertised as being “green”, it’s painted, and is about money. They will always have the underlying desire to separate us from the relationships we have to the air, water, and plant life. We must make our voices heard and protect ever acre of wetlands we have. We must make our voices heard and not allow the sleeping waters that contain the contaminated sediment to be awakened.

As it stands, the SPDES permit must be denied or at least delayed. Your voice matters. Please- write, email, or call the DEC and urge them to deny Air Products & Chemicals Inc. the SPDES permit. 

Miranda Gilgore, NYSDEC Region &  Headquarters

State Office Building – 317 Washington St, Watertown, NY 13601

Phone: (315) 785-2245

Email: DEP.R6@dec.ny.gov

 

Ojistoh Horn, MSc, MD, CCFP”

 

Deep Purple sang about this. “Smoke on the water”. “We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline to make records with a mobile. We didn’t have much time. “Frank Zappa and the Mothers” were at the best place in town. Until some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground. Smoke on the water, fire in the sky. Smoke on the water, fire in the sky… 

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